Archive for Steroids

Bust the Boras touch.

Yesterday, Roger Clemens’ filed a motion asking the judge in the defamation action to reconsider his February 12th ruling which essentially gutted his case. As I sat here a few minutes ago reading about it, I realized that I couldn’t recall a single instance in my nearly 11-year legal career in which a motion for […]

Mark McGwire emerges from his undisclosed location and speaks to a New York Times reporter: In this instance, McGwire agreed to an interview with the understanding that it would focus on his work as a hitting tutor, and not on other issues. But at one point, McGwire did address the criticism he has received for […]

There was a story on NPR last night about a man trying to reconcile his young son’s love of baseball and the steroid era. The subject, Jim Gullo, has an eight year-old son who is becoming a hardcore baseball freak, but who, at the same time, is acutely aware of Barry Bonds’ issues, the Mitchell […]

No longer A-Rod free, but STILL every Thursday!

I won’t link to the original source because there’s some arguably not safe for work stuff there, but the website sportsimproper.com has Brian McNamee making the whole Clemens affair sound even seedier than it already did: One of the needles I gave the government was used to inject Clemens with steroids in either July or […]

Attorney General Eric Holder and the guy he and Obama have chosen to head up the Criminal Division of the DOJ are recusing/will be recusing themselves from the Roger Clemens investigation and any potential prosecution: Attorney general Eric Holder has cited a conflict of interest in recusing himself from any legal matters involving Roger Clemens, […]

Last month, investigators leaked the fact that Clemens’ DNA was found on the syringes Brian McNamee had kept under his couch or wherever. Now they’re saying that PEDs are on them too: Federal authorities investigating Roger Clemens on perjury charges have found performance-enhancing substances on the drug paraphernalia that his former trainer said he used […]

A’s owner Lew Wolff defends Bud Selig from attacks that he looked the other way on steroids: “There’s one thing I don’t think enough people realize about Bud,” Wolff said. “He knows that baseball is the players. Whether he reacted soon enough to the steroid situation or not, once he did react, it was still […]

Dave Zirin places the prosecution of Barry Bonds squarely within the policies of the Bush Administration justice department: The Justice Department wins 95 percent of the cases it brings to trial, and make no mistake: this case was about to become part of the other 5 percent. The only thing the Justice Department had in […]